Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd Baronet (18 November 1868 – 4 May 1939) was an English art patron and art historian.

Life

Only son of

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, he was educated at

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and

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. He was subsequently called to the Bar by the

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in 1895. He married in 1898 to Mary Hood, daughter of Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport, with whom he had one son (

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, who succeeded him) and two daughters. In 1920, he succeeded to his father's

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, along with the first baronet's art collection, which he catalogued in three volumes in 1913 and which thereafter became known in art history publications as the "Cook Collection, Doughty House, Richmond". Though he was not a major collector himself, he did add

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’s ''Portrait of a boy'' ( Norton Simon Foundation) and

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’s '' La Schiavona'' (

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Cook Collection

He was an art historian who wrote a catalog raisonné of

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works in 1900, and managed and hosted visits to his family's collection which included a

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'' and two Giorgiones at Doughty House. He was a co-founder of

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, and in 1903 was founding member of the "Consultative Committee" of ''

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''.Pan-Giorgionism: Herbert Frederick Cook (1868-1939) as art writer.
Retrieved 01-01-2018 Other members were Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon and James Lindsay, Lord Balcarres, Sir Martin Conway,

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, and

Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and art critic, critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent ...

. Later Roger Fry disagreed with some of Cook's optimistic Giorgione attributions, especially Cook's 1913 acquisition of ''La Schiavona'', which he catalogued as ''The portrait of Caterina Cornaro by Giorgione (finished by Titian)''. The other Giorgione in his collection that was purchased in 1907, has since been reattributed to

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.catalog entry 137
in 1913 He was a member of the

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and served on committees for foreign exhibitions and organised several in London. In 1930, he also gave £1000 to the

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for the

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Selected works

*''

'' - 1900 * Volume II, Dutch & Flemish schools,
A catalogue of the paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, & elsewhere in the collection of Sir Frederick Cook, bt., Visconde de Monserrate
', by Cook, Herbert; Borenius, Tancred, 1885-1948; Kronig, J. O., 1887-1984; Brockwell, Maurice W., 1869-1958, on

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References

External links

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Obituary, The Times, 5 May 1939
* http://thepeerage.com/p8092.htm#i80912 {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Herbert 1868 births 1939 deaths English philanthropists Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford People educated at Harrow School English art historians Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom